As a champion of both small businesses and environmental protection, I am grateful for Subrenia Smith’s commentary regarding my Senate Bill 45 to reduce litter and the dangerous health impacts of ...

BOTTLE MAKERS TO TETHER CAPS TO BOTTLES. SPONSORS OF THIS PROPOSAL SAY SINGLE USE PLASTIC CAPS ARE EASILY SEPARATED FROM BOTTLES, REDUCING THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THEY’LL BE RECYCLED. A NUMBER OF STUDIES ...

A bench made from plastic bottle caps was dedicated at Peters Township Library on Thursday. The Giant Oaks Garden Club, which collected plastic non-biodegradable caps, “adopted” the bench from Clean ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

It's not your imagination: Beverage containers for milk, soda and water have gotten harder to open in recent years because their plastic screw top caps have been shortened to save plastic. It's a ...

A European government regulation requiring Coca-Cola and other soft drink makers to attach the bottle caps to the plastic beverage containers in order to reduce waste is getting on customers’ nerves.

At a workshop in the South Korean capital, two environmental activists melt down old plastic bottle caps that thousands of volunteers known as "sparrows" have collected in a bid to fight a tide of ...

The reusable water bottle is many things to many people: hydration helper, fashion statement, emotional support accessory. And whether it’s slim with a flip lid or oversized with an oh-so-trendy straw ...

Drinks in glass bottles contained more microplastics than those in plastic bottles or cans, according to a new French study. Researchers traced most of the microplastic particles to the painted metal ...

A 2024 study by the French NGO Agir pour l’Environnement found that repeatedly opening and closing plastic soda bottles significantly increased the number of microplastic particles in the beverages.

Origin Materials CEO, John Bissell, sitting in front of the CapFormer line that makes PET bottle caps using a radical new design. After researching Origin Materials (NASDAQ: ORGN) for my article ...